A pre-recorded piano piece played through a 230 - 24v transformer, in reverse causes the resultant sound waves to increase vibration when in contact with a given object. Indeed it is the choice of object through which the vibrations occur that make for a unique and at first humorous and ironic - diminutive encounter.
But it is precisely the experience of scale of the object in relation to the sounds either vibrating from it or echoing within it that prompts a special reading of time and space. Ordinary objects converted into transmitters of aural meaning, is as common as the sound of the ocean in a seashell. And yet every time we listen for the ocean in a seashell we are struck by momentary disbelief.
This magic - if you will- is inherent in Joao Orecchia’s sound installation: Small Worlds where banal everyday objects by virtue of their acoustic properties (or lack thereof) transmit evocative alternate worlds, where the performer is tiny and the viewer is huge.
Small Worlds is a special project in that it forces one to pause in a gap-like situation, making the viewer/participant/listener project unexpected meaning onto the everyday thus discovering a refreshed configuration of user, object and landscape.
Small Worlds2012 Found objects, electronic circuits, wooden light boxes Dimensions variable
